In this talk we will cover contemporary challenges and problems of current IDE platforms. We will start from a short history of IDE design, then we will go to problems that we encountered while working on our own IDE products, outline architectural and design decisions as well as trade-offs that we made during our journey. Then we will cover some insights on how UX and UI experience may evolve in near future. At the end we will present our vision of the future IDE platforms design, new requirements and opportunities that we think must be taken in account. As usually we also will cover potential impact of AI on the platforms and what we can expect in the near future.

Outline
1. What is the difference between IDE and IDE platform?
2. Evolution of the IDE platforms
3. What are the emerging challenges of IDE platforms
4. Our view of unified UX/UI ecosystem for the IDE platforms
5. What are the trade-offs that we do, what we believe will be an evolution of IDE platform.
6. How AI will change the platforms? What changes we can expect in 3-5 years?

Takeaway

• What is IDE platform, what are the requirements to the good platforms
• How they evolve over the time, current limitations
• How UX and UI depends from platform
• What are the emerging requirements to future platforms